It’s said that when Dick Cheney was tasked with vetting potential Veeps for the Bush campaign, he carefully considered all the applicants before recommending the best man for the job: himself. Perhaps tearing a page from Vader’s playbook, Dark Lord Balthazar – AKA Gawker Media Czar Nick Denton – has found the ideal replacement to helm his flagship website in the wake of managing editor Choire Sicha’s resignation: an eager young go-getter from sector 7G......

The current New York Magazine dives deep inside the navel with seven sprawling pages on Gawker. The rather tame procedural is conducted by Vanessa Grigoriadis, who's up front with the disclosures: Her NY Times wedding announcement was savaged by Gawker, New York Magazine currently employs two former Gawker editors, and Grigoriadis peeped managing editor Choire Sicha’s underwear. So have the hunters become the hunted? Not really. The article is not so much a take-down as......

The Observer has an article that, upon reading it, appears to have been written two years ago. "Blog Ghetto" scratches the surface of a scene that's been around for quite a while, and uncovers things such as: bloggers sometimes hang out with each other...and drink...at The Magician (and other "Hell Square" watering holes). The profile on the scene makes it seem very 90210-esque, even calling The Magician "Blogger High's Peach Pit" and picking out......

Animal Magazine's 6th Issue comes out this week-- and Bucky was nice enough to messenger us over a copy, since we unfortunately missed Animal's "Save Krucoff" themed party at BLVD on Wednesday night. The magazine is beatuiful and glossy and filled with pictures of scantily clad girls-- but we were interested in one feature in particular: a series of interviews with some of our NYC blog colleagues. Our favorite quotes: Joey Arak (Curbed): "People......

Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted what he felt is necessary to the perfect sandwich. After going back to the sandwich's humble beginings, he states: The keys to a good sandwich are the three Bs: bread, balance, and...ok, there's only two Bs, but they're important. Aside from the main ingredient (turkey, tuna, chicken salad, etc.), the bread has the power to make or break a sandwich. The first thing you taste when you take a bite is......

Andrew Krucoff, beloved former-Gothamist interviewer, media maven and dark-horse candidate for the Media Bistro editor's job, was just fired from his research job at Conde Nast. His crime? Conde's servers went down last week, and Kru leaked the tech email to Gawker. They report: Andrew Krucoff, the well-known blogger whom we often jokingly — lovingly, even, we’d say — refer to as Gawker’s mascot, has worked as a freelance research analyst at Conde Nast for......

About three weeks ago, Gawker made the unusual move of switching from a gossip-blog format to full-time coverage of Maer Roshan's soon-to-be-launched Radar magazine. While some die-hard Gawker fans seemed enthralled by the minute-by-minute Radar coverage, many others were mystified. However, as usual, Denton's nefarious strategy appears to have paid off. After weeks of skirmishes, and some recent back-and-forth, the feud exploded last night at the Radar launch party:...publicity guru Nadine Johnson fetched Gawker publisher......

Attention: a few minutes ago, Andrew Krucoff rushed into the Gothamist newsroom. He was flushed and out of breath, but after a few minutes of heavy mouth-to-mouth, he was able to gasp out a few words: "Lockhart... Gawker... Denton." He then collapsed and we gently rolled his body back down the steps. [Correction: apparently, this did not really happen, and Krucoff helpfully points out that we probably read the news on MediaBistro this morning.]......

You're probably all saying, "Why go out after Gothamist's Movable Hype show last night? It's been done to perfection." That's a valid point, but the next week has quite a few worthwhile shows you should consider. The Germans are coming! Morr Music finally puts together a national tour, and they've got two shows in NYC (one was last night, and the word on the street is it was really great). Tonight at the Mercury Lounge......

Dale Peck, Writer...

Rachel Johnson, Filmmaker...

Dirk Westphal, Artist...

Robyn Moreno & Michelle Herrera Mulligan, Authors...

Alexander Perls, Songwriter and Vocal Producer...

It seems like 36 hours was enough time to recover from Thursday night's surprise Gothamist Happy Hour, because photographs from the evening were posted at Bluejake. Again, many thanks to the Magician for welcoming us and Gothamist is happy that we could meet everyone who stopped by - we hope we'll be able to do this again some time soon. And was this sexual harrassment from Gothamist why Andrew Krucoff had to leave? Only......

Somehow, for his very last interview here at Gothamist, Andrew Krucoff manages to interview himself. It's amazing what a mirror, tape recorder, or healthy number of multiple personalities can do. Oh, wait, it seems that Chris Gage helped out. Nice, but we wouldn't have put it past Andrew to have clenched his fists and given a lengthy soap-opera style monologue ("Oh, yes...Marlena will be mine"). At any rate, Gothamist is glad that he has lowered......

Happy weekend! As many of you are checking out of work early (at least, we hope you are), Gothamist wants to wish you a great weekend. The police are on extra alert - they already confiscated 160 boxes of illegal fireworks from a day care center. Enjoy the weekend and leave your computer and 24/7 Internet access behind you! (Or at least cut it down to 16/5.) Eat hot dogs! Eat tofu dogs! Get sunburned......

Lots of news at Casa de Gothamist this week, so let's just jump into it: 1. Andrew Krucoff has filed a petition to break the indefinite, involuntary servitude contract we signed him to at the beginning of the year, and for humanitarian reasons, we have seen fit to grant his request. Krucoff has made a tremendous contribution to Gothamist - his 100+ interviews will stand as a testament to his wit, intelligence, and kind-heartedness for......

Gothamist Interview has hit its 100th subject. Submitting to Andrew Krucoff's Young Manhattanite Interview is none other than Tina Brown, editor, writer, and now TV personality on CNBC with all those people talking about money and stuff. She even lets everyone know how much the Topic A staff feels Henry, the Gawker Intern, who is tasked with a weekly recap of the show (check out today's recap.) Now, to work on getting Thomas Pynchon for......

Gothamist is happy to introduce a new feature on the site: the Gothamist Digest. This page has the current day's posts from all pages of Gothamist, including the Gothamist front page, Andrew Krucoff's YM Interview, Gothamist Weather, Ask Gothamist, and Gothamist Sports. We're going to try to integrate the Gothamist Events page in the coming weeks as well. The Digest is also available as an RSS feed (RSS1.0, RSS2.0), for those of you who want......

The Other Page's Andrew Krucoff continues his assault on NY-area blogs by "filling in" for Gawker editor Choire Sicha this week. With his first post, Krucoff fired off an opening salvo that included references to "scar-fucking" Tina Fey and a reference for Dominick Dunne's bowels. Lord have mercy on the media, social, and whatever elite whose egos he will tread upon this week, as we will undoubtedly benefit. And what's the line in Vegas on......

New York loves a stories about animals in tiny NYC apartments...throw in a hipster and some cute monkeys, and this story can go far! Animal control seized six monkeys living in the Bronx Inwood yesterday, from the apartment of 26 year-old Orlando Lopez, a veterinary technician. The monkeys, two capuchins, two marmosets and two squirrel monkeys named Mandy, Michael, Marley, Chucky, Lulu and Belle, were purchased by Lopez from a breeder in Florida and kept......

Our technology news prayers have been answered: Our good friend Peter Rojas has launched a new technology weblog, engadget in partnership with Weblogs, Inc.. This move allows Peter to fulfill his dream of obsessively blogging about gadgeteria ALL THE TIME for the geeks. God bless you, Peter, and may the slickly designed, tiny, silver objects with high resolution displays shine upon you. Peter gives his first interview with Andrew Krucoff's Young Manhattanite Interview: "Well,......

Gothamist is happy that our readers seem to be enjoying our Interviews section, steered by Andrew Krucoff. Sure, some people are confused by why a site curious and interested about many things would want to share a glimpse into the lives of curious and interesting people, but it's all worth it. Worth it because we've been spoofed in fine fashion by Eurotrash and low culture. low culture thought they had us by interviewing a stapler,......

– Yes, we couldn't help it; we had to post something about Janet Jackson during the Super Bowl; we're just like everyone else – Salaries of New Yorker – How to pronounce some New York words – A reality show that tests women's gaydar – Statistics about death in New York – Is the apartment shortage in Manhattan just a way to drive up rental prices? – NY politicians are upset there's federal funding to......

Today we'd like to introduce a new feature: the Gothamist Interview, written by Andrew Krucoff. The inaugural interview is with none other than Lockhart Steele, Lower East Side icon and famous dilettante. Other interviews on tap for this week: Chuck Klosterman of Spin, Danielle Romano of Daily Candy, and a surprise guest who may go by the name of Choire Sicha (girls, get your engines ready!). Andrew has an amusing interview style that is part......